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Developments of non-conventional drilling methods—a review

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Demand for drilled micro-holes on difficult to machine materials have increased over the past years and non-traditional drilling processes are commonly used to fabricate such micro-holes on difficult to machine materials. This research investigates different non-traditional drilling processes, such as electro discharge, laser beam, abrasive water jet, electrochemical and electrochemical discharge drilling methods. Drilling mechanism, material removal rate/machining speed and surface finish have been analysed for every process. These analyses clearly show that vaporisation, melting, chemical dissolution and mechanical erosion are dominant material removal mechanism during non-traditional drilling. The understanding on electro discharge, laser beam and abrasive water jet drilling are more developed than that of electrochemical, electrochemical discharge and hybrid drilling processes.

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    Prithpal Singh & A. Pramanik

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  3. School of Mechanical Engineering, Lovely Professional University, Phagwara, India

    C. Prakash

  4. CSIR – Central Scientific Instruments Organisation, Chandigarh, India

    Vinod Mishra

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Singh, P., Pramanik, A., Basak, A.K. et al. Developments of non-conventional drilling methods—a review. Int J Adv Manuf Technol 106, 2133–2166 (2020). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00170-019-04749-0

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